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*I would also suggest perhaps a "Miscellaneous" category to house such items as yearbooks, old picture postcards, misc. groups of portrait photos, and the like. | *I would also suggest perhaps a "Miscellaneous" category to house such items as yearbooks, old picture postcards, misc. groups of portrait photos, and the like. | ||
*The "vital records" section hasn't been clear to me. I've been taking this as referring to official records, and have been dividing into the following subheadings: Birth Marriage Death. I've been placing obituaries under Newspapers, since that's a primary reason why genealogists use newspapers, but then funeral home records become an issue, since they're neither newspaper-related nor official records.<br> | *The "vital records" section hasn't been clear to me. I've been taking this as referring to official records, and have been dividing into the following subheadings: Birth Marriage Death. I've been placing obituaries under Newspapers, since that's a primary reason why genealogists use newspapers, but then funeral home records become an issue, since they're neither newspaper-related nor official records.<br> | ||
*I would suggest breaking down the Cemetery section into the following subcategories: General, Specific Cemeteries. General could house, for example, web pages and books containing information on multiple cemeteries, while Specific Cemeteries could include, for example, web pages on specific cemeteries that are not linked through the "general" sources. One question becomes whether GPS coordinates should be provided, since sometimes they differ. Another issue here becomes the fact that one county may contain two or more cemeteries with the same name (or one cemetery with two or more names). I believe some sort of location information should be provided where possible in order to obviate this problem. This, however, may require a lot more work, e.g. checking topo maps, etc. In most cases, indicating the township(s) in which the cemetery is located might suffice. | *I would suggest breaking down the Cemetery section into the following subcategories: General, Specific Cemeteries. General could house, for example, web pages and books containing information on multiple cemeteries, while Specific Cemeteries could include, for example, web pages on specific cemeteries that are not linked through the "general" sources. One question becomes whether GPS coordinates should be provided, since sometimes they differ. Another issue here becomes the fact that one county may contain two or more cemeteries with the same name (or one cemetery with two or more names). I believe some sort of location information should be provided where possible in order to obviate this problem. This, however, may require a lot more work, e.g. checking topo maps, etc. In most cases, indicating the township(s) in which the cemetery is located might suffice. | ||
*For some states, a state library or archive might provide a list for each county specifying which records are available for that specific county at the state level. It would be nice if this info could be inputted for each county all at once. Such lists could be included under a "General" category under "Resources." In some counties, I've introduced such a category, sometimes with multiple "general" web pages or web documents that list or discuss what records are available for that county. Sometimes such lists are provided locally, by a local library or the like. A General category would be an appropriate place, I would think, to house these very important resources. | |||